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James Miller's avatar

Excellent work! Proud to be a colleague of yours.

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John Day MD's avatar

We fulfilled our family dream of traveling around the world with bikes and backpacks, mom and dad and 4 teenagers in 2005-2006.

We visited the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Dachau concentration camp in Germany, and Tuol Sleng Prison in Cambodia.

In every place, we found that ordinary people had been victims, perpetrators and heroes, often the perpetrators were themselves consumed by the killing machine.

I taught our kids that this happens recurrently in history, and one will need to see it immediately when it starts.

"How?"

When I saw the depersonalization of "the unvaccinated" begin in the early summer of 2021, I recognized it for what it was.

I had been treating patients with repurposed antivirals at our public health clinic, and had been 2-3 months ahead of CDC pronouncements, which kept being counterfactual. I had considered it to be "political", but when I saw the creation of "untermenschen", I recognized it as more evil than that.

I declared to the clinic that "I would stand naked with the Jews", to which some took offense, but I saw that it was exactly that, and explained to anybody who would listen, as I had in my emailed written statement to the clinic staff.

I was summarily fired, but it happened in the vegetable garden I grew for my clinic coworkers, which was nobody's plan. I was planting the fall/winter vegetables on my day off.

https://www.johndayblog.com/2021/10/go-down-gardening.html

Everybody saw, and I insisted on staying until I was finished planting, and on clearing off my own desk, even though my access-key had been inactivated as I gardened.

I did not escape what was happening, but saw it early and stood openly in resistance.

It has not come to pass as designed.

I remain unemployed. I remain human. I will resist.

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